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Brief me on the top 5-10 online communities/forums for Microsoft Excel.
Hello! Thanks for your question about the top 5 to 10 online communities or forums for Microsoft Excel. The most useful sources I found to answer your question were the two Excel websites. The short version is that the following communities are the best for Microsoft Excel: Excel Forum, Ozgrid, Mr Excel Message Board, Excel Guru Forum, Chandoo, and VBAExpress.
Below you will find a deep dive of my findings.
--FORUMS FOR MICROSOFT EXCEL
EXCEL FORUM
This forum focuses on providing assistence for the Excel Spreadsheet program. Questions usually refer to a place in a project where a user is stuck. Advice is given within the next hour, but sometimes it takes only a few minuets. The community is organized according to sub-forums.
URL: excelforum.com
OZGRID
In this forum job postings are common ( everything from Outlook projects to Java programing). There are sub-forums that offer a discussion based on tricks, tips, and code. There is a section that offers resources. This community is organized by categories and sub-categories.
MR.EXCEL MESSAGE BOARD
In the community, there are question forums in languages other than English, and there is a forum that focuses on questions about Microsoft Access. Other common subjects include Business Intelligence Tools and Excel discussions. The forum also offers a place to chat. The organization of the community uses multiple categories like Announcements, Forum Question, and Mr.Excel Products.
EXCEL GURU FORUM
Topics that this forum covers include Excel charting, Dash-boarding, and Pivot Tables. There is also great help with programming subjects in Excel. And the forum also provides advice with applications like Office 365 and Microsoft Publisher. The categories in this forum are Site News, General Excel Help, Programming etc.
CHANDOO
This community offers help with Excel Dashboards, Power Pivot, Power Map, data visualization and charting, formulas and functions. The place is organized by categories. These include Excel, Data Visualization & Charting, VBA Macros, The Vault etc.
VBA EXPRESS
Here users find help with projects in Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Exel, Access, SQL, and more. There is also a project assistance area for people with larger projects. The forum is organized by categories like Announcements, VBA Code & Help, MAC users, etc.
--DISCUSSION COMMUNITIES
REDDIT
Popular subjects in this community include Power Pivot questions, forecasting traffic and revenue for e-commerce stores, and work on graphs. This site is organized by comments or posts from subscribers within the community. Users can contribute or provide solutions to the comments or posts.
STACK OVER FLOW
In this community you will find assistance with topics like Excel VBA code, watermarks in Word, merging PDFs, arrays, and SQL. People will give specifics about their project in their individual threads.This is one of the top discussion communities online for Excel. Each page contains 36 users and there are 180197 pages, with the last page containing 14 users and 180196 pages containing 36 users. Therefore, number of users in this community is: 180,196×36+(14) = 6,487,070 users. It is organized by categories likes questions, tags, users, and documentation.
LINKEDIN
This is a discussion community where users post questions. Answers are organized according to Linkedin's Community format. I'm unable able to see the latest post/comment date because it is a closed group.
CONCLUSION
To wrap it up, the short version is that the following communities are the best for Microsoft Excel: Excel Forum, Ozgrid, Mr Excel Message Board, Excel Guru Forum,Chandoo, and VBAExpress.
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